Michel de Montaigne on Love
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Michel de Montaigne, catalogued under love, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Michel de Montaigne, entry #1994: "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
Attributed to Michel de Montaigne, entry #44156: "I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head."
7 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne on Love
"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
"I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head."
"To which we may add this other Aristotelian consideration, that he who confers a benefit on any one loves him better than he is beloved by him again."
"All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate."
"The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods."
"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."
"Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them."